Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

poetry is the odd ball, the one that says the off the wall thing when others won't poetry is the thing that needs to be said that goes beyond all the load of crap that passes for dogma of current affairs poetry is not what governments do as we see the passing thanksgiving parade of one fake for anot...

nothing I say makes sense let's get that out in the open because nothing we hear about what is going on in this world, makes any sense real news fake news whatever news none of it makes sense, well we have been spoon fed lies for so long, that what is suppose to be significant, like what matters to ...

down on the railroad track down by the ocean near Depot hill I finished reading On the Road I don't know what I was thinking it was nineteen seventy not the fifties I had spent the late sixties taking LSD and running around now I was trying to see where the road was headed, I was living in the bigge...

I know there are some good movies
there must be some good movies
there has to be, how about Jodorowski's Dune
but it was never finished, how about
Endless Poetry that came out last year
I have not seen it

nothing happens in hollowwood without the consent of the biggest shit heels on the planet why do you think there was a movie about Pearl harbor just before 9/11 or that movie about D day with Tom Hanks you know the one very realistic no coincidence, why do you think horror movies just get more horri...

nothing is really material.

Francis DePavia was Philip Lamantia.

Rik came from a rich family in L.A. his father was a scientist who worked for some corporation, his father made him get shock therapy because Rik was an acid head, the shock therapy I think was why he could not handle alcohol,the pot really did keep him sane, sort of, but he read a lot of books and ...

As a side note the person that influenced me to really be a poet was a hard core surfer, he smoked a lot of pot to keep sane he could not handle alcohol it make him too angry he became a hard core surrealist, meaning he wrote in a surrealist style, he was the one that gave me Philip Lamantia's phone...

the jig is up what I mean is, like Bukowski said when the wine is gone the reading is over he said that at a poetry reading but you could turn that around when the poetry is gone it's all over when there is no more poetry in this unpoetic world, then then nothing will make any sense there is so litt...

Invading other countries, has never been about bringing Democracy, you don't impose Democracy by dropping bombs. In fact you totally are not being Democratic if you impose it. What is insane is that people actually believe it when some creep that stole the whitewash house says that is why we are bom...

our ancient cheese brains.

around the time I began to think of myself as a beatnik the surfers were becoming the big thing where I lived in Anaheim calif. when I was thirteen surf music was happening what I remember was there was some surfer lingo they had a way to describe non surfers like the word hodad, which was a non sur...

Yeah, was never good at spelling, surfing serfs, or slave surfers, or like Jim Morrison said, "your all a bunch of slaves" all those people tripping on acid thought he was trying to be funny. I don't know when I first got into poetry I had the draft hanging over my head, so my whole view from that p...

The Fugs great beatniks.